Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anmar Oueja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello Alastair: Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I want to get some screen shots to get the translators motivated to get Arabic Support

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Christian Perrier] Second stage will NOT be possible because this implies changing the normal slang libraries and add libfribidi0 to the base system. As the base system freeze is decided, it is very unlikely that the Release Manager, Antony Towns, decides about an exception. This is really

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Christian Perrier] Second stage will NOT be possible because this implies changing the normal slang libraries and add libfribidi0 to the base system. As the base system freeze is decided, it is very unlikely that the Release Manager,

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Christian Perrier] Second stage will NOT be possible because this implies changing the normal slang libraries and add libfribidi0 to the base system. As the base system freeze is decided, it is very unlikely that the

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): with several that want to push Debian in Iran and Iraq, and we need BTW, official language in Iran if Persian, or Farsi, codename fa. I've been in touch with a possible translator (the one who did the very few existing fa.po files), but didn't

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Colin Watson] Not breaking debootstrap is also important; every time a package in the base system grows a new dependency, it breaks old d-i images, making consistent testing difficult. Which is a good argument for starting to use cdebootstrap, which track dependencies automatically. You can

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:04:27PM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote: Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I want to get some screen shots to get the translators motivated to get Arabic Support

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:24:06PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:04:27PM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote: Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I want to get some

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:22:44AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Anmar Oueja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello Alastair: Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I want to get some

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
This is not restricted to Arabic/Hebrew people. Others probably may help on this hot topic. Please read if you happen to have some skills in debconf/slang/programming and just try to imagine if you can help Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please see

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Baruch Even
* Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040401 08:35]: (conclusion: Arabic without shaping is uselessHebrew is probably OK but some doubt remains.Hebrew translators, please elaborate) Hebrew doesn't need shaping, the standard for hebrew is to do the shaping manually, we actually have

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Anmar Oueja
Christian Perrier wrote: This is not restricted to Arabic/Hebrew people. Others probably may help on this hot topic. Please read if you happen to have some skills in debconf/slang/programming and just try to imagine if you can help Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please see

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Anmar Oueja
Christian Perrier wrote: This is not restricted to Arabic/Hebrew people. Others probably may help on this hot topic. Please read if you happen to have some skills in debconf/slang/programming and just try to imagine if you can help Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please see

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-30 Thread Anmar Oueja
Hello Alastair: Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I want to get some screen shots to get the translators motivated to get Arabic Support there ASAP :) Your kind response is greatly

BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Christian Perrier
Shlomi Loubaton did some work on BIDI (BI-DIrectional langauges support) for Debian Installer. He hacked the slang libraries so that some handling of BIDI is added to it. This will probably need adding the libfribidi0 library to Debian Installer. Thus a libfribidi0-udeb package will probably

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Shlomi Loubaton did some work on BIDI (BI-DIrectional langauges support) for Debian Installer. He hacked the slang libraries so that some handling of BIDI is added to it. This will probably need adding the libfribidi0 library to Debian Installer. Thus a libfribidi0-udeb package will probably

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-27 10:10]: Copy to Baruch Even, the fribidi package maintainer I have done so ; its present in http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/fribidi for testing Will diff out the patch and forward to Baruch Evan Baruch seems to be busy/inactive, so

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Baruch Even
* Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040328 00:24]: * Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-27 10:10]: Copy to Baruch Even, the fribidi package maintainer I have done so ; its present in http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/fribidi for testing Will diff out the patch and